Five house church leaders were free Saturday, May 19, following their release from prison in China's Xinjiang province amid "intensive diplomacy and media pressure", human rights investigators said.
...continue reading this storyAmid international pressure Chinese security forces have returned confiscated items to two house churches in the city of Kunshan in China's Jiangsu province, BosNewsLife established Saturday, May 12.
...continue reading this storyChinese Christians are suing authorities to regain items confiscated during a recent police raid on their congregation in China's Jiangsu Province amid reports of an ongoing police crackdown on unregistered house churches, religious rights investigators said Wednesday, May 9.
...continue reading this storyChinese authorities have released four American Christian workers and their interpreter from detention amid international pressure, but at least six other Chinese pastors arrested with them remained behind bars Thursday, May 3, BosNewsLife monitored.
...continue reading this storyFour Americans and nearly two dozen Chinese house church leaders were believed to be in detention Wednesday, April 25, after they were reportedly arrested last week following a Christian worship service in China's Xinjiang province.
...continue reading this storyChina has sentenced a key house church leader "to one year re-education through labor" for explaining the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a Communist Party official, fellow believers confirmed Saturday, March 31.
...continue reading this storyThe mistreated wife of a senior Chinese house church leader was sentenced to ten days administrative detention in Henan province on Monday, March 19, on charges of "disturbing public order," observers close to the trial said.
...continue reading this storyA senior house church leader was free Saturday, March 17, after being released following ten days administrative detention, but the 77-year old mother of a Christian activist remained behind bars, representatives said.
...continue reading this storyAfter intensive international pressure, local police released 33 arrested house church leaders and three leaders from South Korea.
...continue reading this storyDozens of Christian leaders, including three church officials from South Korea, were detained by Chinese security forces Tuesday, March 6, as part of an apparent government crackdown on independent Christian groups, representatives said.
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